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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) SEWS.
SOLICITOR DORSEY MAKES GREATEST SPEECH OF HIS CAREER
Likens Frank to Beattie, Richeson, Wilde and Other Noted Criminals
DORSEY STRESSES EAC1
THAT DEFENSE DIDN’T GO
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ly platonic? I know enoueh about
human nature—I know enough of the
passions which surge in the breast of
mortal man—-to know that this poor
woman's anxieti i to put her neck
into the noose to save him were bo**n
of something besides platonic love.
“When you see a woman so pas
sionately devoted to her employer —
so anxious to dL for him—you may
know and you can gamble on it that
there is somethih" stronger there than
platonic love. It must be a passion
bom of something beyond the relation
which should exist between a married
man—an employer—and his wom>r.
employee.
“Ah, gentlemen of the jury, we
could have got witness after witness
who would have '’’one upon the stand
and sworn things about this man.
There were people who would have
perjured themselves. There were wit
nesses who came upon th.s stand for
th defendant who on the f„ce of their
testimony perjured themselves
“Take this little aBuer boy. Re
member his testimony before he took
that automobile ride with Montag o
the office of Arnold & Arnold. Be
fore dinner he could remember earn
detail, but after dinner, after he had
taken that ride with old Sib Montag,
he had a lapse of memory. Old man
Sig must have told this little boy
about the Hard ~hell preacher down
in South Georgia who h l.is con
gregation pray for rain. They prayed
and prayed, and after a while, like old
Sam Jones would have «aid, the Lord
sent a trash mover, a gully wajher.
Boy Must Have
Overdone It.”
“It rained and it rained until they
had omre water than they knew what
to do with. Then th£ old hardshell
preacher skid: ‘Brethren, it looks like
we have aleetle overdone it.’ So
Montag must have whispered into
Bauer’s ear. You have a leetle over
done it.’
“And, after dinner, this little boy
didn’t know’ anything. But was that
all? Why, gentlemen of the jury, be
fore dinner that boy even remember
ed where his watch lay. „
“Do you believe that? Talk about
perjury! Wilfull foolishness because
an honest jury knows that it was
not true. They brought in that ma-
swear to anything and there was not
a man in the sound of his voice that
didn’t know he was telling an un
truth. He wrote and signed a state
ment about Duffy’s injuries. I brought
it here and it was written in type
writing and didn’t even have his
name on it.
“They thought we could not find
Duffy and thought you didnt’ have
sense enough to know the first thing
you do in a case like that is to rap
something around it to stop the loss
of blood.
"I have never seen a case yet where
women were so suborned as in this.
Take this woman Fleming, his ste
nographer. They put her up and
she swore Frank had a general good
character. She only swore to what
he had done in her presence when
they cross-examined her. We don’t
contend Frang tried to seduce every
girl in the factorwy. But he did pick
them out. He picked out Mary Pha-
gan and was called.
"Gentlemen, he got the wrong girl
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pose.
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Phones: Main 1115, Atlanta
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DOZIER & GAY
PAINT CO.
31 South Broad Street.
and he was called. And this stenog
rapher said she only knew what he
did to her. She testified that Frank's
business Saturday morning was to
make out the financial sheet. Mr. Ar
nold said immediately he didn’t have
time and she jumped at it like a duck
at a June bug. Mr. Arnold was so
nervous, he would not let me finish
the cross-examination, and interpo
lated that Remark to guide her.
“It was unfair and not according
to law and practice. But he got
away with it. And then she turned
right around and in the next breath
said that she had never said Frank
was working on the financial sheet
Saturday morning.
Says Perjury Charge
Has Not Been Proved.
“Oh. genjtlemen, can you let a poor
little girl go to her death and set her
murderer free on such evidence as
this? If you do, it is time to stop
going through the process of sum
moning a jury.
“Perjury! When did old man
Starnes and Pat Campbell stoop to
that. And suspicions! Why didn’t
we get old/ man Lee and Gantt in
stead of Frank? Why didn’t we get
Conley? We tried it, but there was
absolutely no case against either. But
there is a perfect case against this
man. But, oh, you cried ‘Perjury.’
But it is not worth fifteen cents until
you put your fingers on something
specific.
“And here, gentlemen, right before
your very eyes, in black and white,
the testimony ofthis woman, Flem
ing, shows that they perjured her.
“Do you tell me when that factory
closes on Saturday afternoons that
this man with the handsome wife
that he possesses, this college gradu
ate, who likes to read and play cards,
who likes to see baseball games,
would spend his time there, using the
data that Schiff prepared on Satur
day afternoons when he could do it
Saturday morning? No. sir. Miss
Fleming was right. She didn’t stay
there to work often on Saturday aft
ernoons.”
The jury was allowed to retire for
a few minutes. When they returned,
Dorsey resumed his argument.
“Now, gentlemen, I submit that
this man made that lnance sheet Sat
urday morning. I am not going to
fatigue you with my reasons. It is
unnecessary. If he did make that
sheet on Saturday afternoon, he did
it thinking of an alibi. But don’t tell
me that because he might have done
this on Saturday afternoon with a
penmanship that showed no nervous
ness proves an alibi.
'If he could go home into the bosom
of his family after such an atrocious
crime, he could have made that sheet.
But he wouldn’t have done it If Schiff
had not gotten up the data. H© had
done it fifty-two times a year for
five or six years. If he would do ad
ditional work on that Saturday aft
ernoon, It could only have been with
a sinister purpose.
Witness Afraid Even to
Identify Handwriting.
“In speaking of perjury, Ms mother
said anybody ought to identify hts
handwriting.”
Dorsey held up the photograph of
th© sample of handwriting Frank
wrote for the police.
“Yet the man they put up to identi
fy his handwriting was so afraid he
might do Frank an injury that he
wouldn’t venture a guess. Grant that
he did go home to his wife and those
old people—his parents-in-law—and
maintain a stoical countenance.
Grant that he did make that sheet,
which he could make up with his eyes
shut. Grant that he did unlock the
safe, a thing that he hod done every
day for years.
“But when he went to run the ele
vator; when he went to nail up that
back door; he wavered; he paled
when he talked to the police, and
trembled on Darley’s knee as he rode
to the polic© Rtatlon.
“He could sit in the hall and read
a joke about a baseball umpire, but
the frivolity annoyed the visitors at
his home. It whs the same kind of
frivolity Henry Clay Beattie displayed
when he stood beside the automobile
that was stained with the blood of
his wife. His Joke was uttered only
in annoyance; it jarred.
“But whether or not he made up
that financial sheet, while waiting for
old Jim to come and burn the body,
one thing I grant he did. Don’t for
get the envelope; don’t forget the way
the letter was quoted, that letter he
wrote to his unci© in Brooklyn, that
letter that begins: 'I trust that this
finds you and dear Tante well.’ He
had no wealthy relations in Brooklyn!
That old millionaire uncle was mighty
near there when Frank told old Jim
Conley: ‘Why should I hand? I have
wealthy relatives in Brooklyn!’
Dorsey finished reading the letter
Dorsey Attacks Frank’s Statement
“ ‘1 p. m.—Frank leaves the factory.’ It looks mighty nice on the chart. Turn that chart to the wall, Mr. Sheriff. Let it
stay turned to the wall. That statement is refuted by the defendant himself when he didn't realize the importance of this time
proposition.
‘‘Frank’s statement at police headquarters, taken by G. C. Febuarv on Monday. April 28, says. ‘I didn’t lock the door that
morning. The mail was coming up. I locked it when I started home to lunch at 1:10 o’clock.’
“Up goes your alibi, punctured by your own statement when you didn’t realize its importance. Yet these honorable gentle
men, for the purpose of impressing your minds, print in big letters on this chart he left the factory at 1 o’clock. If he swore
when he was on the stand the other day that he left the factory at 1 o’clock it was because he saw the importance of this time
point, and had to leave there ten minutes earlier than he said he had at the police station before he had had time to confer with
his lawyer, Mr. Luther Z. Rosser.”
and then said:
“Here Is a sentence pregnant with
significance. It bears the eararks of
a guilty conscience. He wasn’t trem
bling when he wrote. He Is capable
and smart, but here Is a sentence that
la a revelation. Here is a document 1
concede was written after little Mary
Phagan. who died for virtue's sake,
was lying mutilated in that dark cold
basement.”
At this juncture Mrs. J. W. Cole
man, mother of Mary Phagan, began
to cry.
Dorsey read from the letter:
“ ‘It is too short a time since you
left for anything startling to have
developed down here.’
“These Are the Words
That Incriminate.”
" ‘Startling’ and ‘too short a time.'
Those are the words that incrimi
nate. That little sentence itself
shows that the crime was committed
in an incredibly short time.
“Tell me, honest men. courageous
men of Georgia, that this phrase
penned to his uncle that, afternoon
did not come from a stricken con
science. ‘Too short a time since you
left for anything to develop down
here.’
“What do you think of that, honest
men? Then notice what he writes
about the thin, gray line of veterans
facing the chilly weather, as If that
ild millionaire uncle of his traveling
around Germany for his health, as If
he cared for these old heroes In gray!
Ample and reliable authority says
that over-expression Is an indication
of guilt. Tell me that this old man,
who was just preparing to sail for
Europe, cared for these old heroes In
gray—this wealthy old man who
wanted to see the financial sheet.
Too short a time’—yes, he said it was
too short a time for anything to de
velop down here. But, gentlemen of
the Jury, there was something start
ling to develop, and it happened with
in the space of 30 minutes. ‘There Is
nothing new in the factory to report,
but there was something new in the
cellar. There was something to re
port. and the time wasn’t too short
for it to happen.
‘‘You tell me that letter was written
In the morning? Do you believe It
Why. they haven't even tried to say
that. I tell you that that letter shows
on its face that something startling
had happened, and I tell you that that
rich uncle did not care the snap of
his finger about the thin, gray line of
veterans.
'■Ah. yes, he had wealthy relatives
in Brooklyn. That's what old Jim
Conley said he told him. And his
people lived In Brooklyn, and old Jim
never would have known that If
Frank had not told him. And they
had at least $30,000 in cool cash In
the bank; and he had a brother-in-
law employing two or three people,
at least, and we don’t know how
many more. And If his rich uncle
was not In Brooklyn, he was near
there.
"All right, let’s go a step farther.
On April 28 he wired Adolph Mon
tag at the Imperial Hotel in New
York: ‘You may have read In At
lanta [tapers of faotory girl found
dead Hunday morning In cellar of
pencil faotory.’
’’Yes, gentlemen of the Jury, In the
cellar of the pencil faotory. There’a
where he placed her, and that Is
where he expected her to be found.
And the thought of It welled up In
his mind that Monday morning, April
28. before he had been arrested, and
he wired Montag forestalling what he
knew would certainly and surely hap
pen unless the Atlanta detectives
were corrupt and would suppress it.
Compliments
Detectives.
“But, be It said to your credit,
Starnes; to your credit, Campbell, and
you, too, Rosser and Black, that you
had hte manhood and the courage to
do your duty and roll the charge up
to thlR man. protected as he was by
wealth and Influence.
“And notice what else he paid In
this telegram. Notice the credit he
gives to the police: ‘The police will
eventually solve it.’ And be It said
to thee red It of the Atlanta police
department, they did solve it, ‘As
sure my uncle I am all right In case
he asks. Our company has case well
In hand.’ Maybe he did think when
he got that fellow Scott that his com
pany had it well in hand.
“I tell you there is an honest man—
this fellow Scott. If there was a
slush fund In this case—and wit
nesses have said there was no such
fund—this man Scott could have got
ten It. Not at first, maybe, but he
could have gotten it later on. But
Scott knew his duty, and he has done
it. No wonder Frank could telegraph
that his company had the case well In
hand, for Scott’s first words could
not have suited him better had he
wished for them. They were. ‘The
Pinkerton’s always work arm and
arm with the police.’ This suited
Frank well. It was Just what he
wanted. He wanted to know what
the police thought he wanted to know
what they were going to do, and this
worked well, until the chain began to
tighten.
“And Haas—and he is nobody’s fool
—when he sa wthe trend of the case,
he opened the negotiations: he gave
Scott the opportunity by saying, ‘Now
let us have what you get first.’
“But let us pass on from that. You
ell me that letter and that telegram
are not significant? That the work
pn this financial sheet is no signifi
cant? That Schiff's testimony as to
the work on that financial sheet Is not
significant?
"Frank himselt was not satisfied.
He is as smart as his lawyers, too.
Solicitor Dorsey’s fiery speech to
the Jury began at 3:30 Friday after
noon and was halted by ad journment
about 6:15. The Solicitor was not
slow in entering into his attack
against the prisoner and his
criticism of the manner in which the
lawyers of the defense had conducted
the case.
H e seemed carried away by his
earnestness. His impassioned words
as he shouted to the Jury that the
people would have to get another So
licitor General if they wanted to put
the rope around Jim Conley's neck
for the crime deeply stirred all within
range of his voice.
The Solicitor declared that Conley
was not guilty of the murder, and
had no more part in the crime than
he had told right on the stand.
“Conley is the self-confessed ac
cessory after the fact,” he said; “only
that and nothing more. If you try
to put a noose around his neck it
w r ill have to be under another Solicitor
General, for right there sits the man
guilty of this crime!”
Shows Defense Wrong
On Durant Case.
Dorsey took the Durant case*, of
which Attorney Arnold had made
much the day before, and converted
it into a boomerang against the de
fense. Arnold had related it as show
ing the terrible mistake that may
come from circumstantial evidence.
He had said that Theodore Durant
was convicted of the brutal slaying
of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Wil
liams $and was executed for the crime.
Several years later the minister in
whose churchyard the body of Durant
found sepulchre himself confessed to
the murder, according to Arnold.
Dorsey tried to read a letter and a
telegram he had received from San
Francisco to controvert Frank's law
yer, but was prevented by objections.
He was permitted to state from his
own information, however, that no
such confession ever took place, and
that no man ever was guiltier than
Durant, no Jury more courageous and
no community more satisfied with a
verdict.
“1 don’t know where my friend Ar
nold found the authority for hl§
strange statements about this Durant
case,” said Dorsey. “If he Is no
more accurate than this In his state
ment that you have heard the testi
mony of every girl on the fourth flojr
of the factory as to Frank’s good
character, I fear there are a lot yet o
hear from.”
The Solicitor laid particular etress
on the failure of Rosser and Arnold
to cross-question the character wit
nesses against Frank that the State
had placed on the stand. In his opin
ion this raised a strong presumption
that Frank was the Immoral man that
the prosecution had represented him
to be.
"If charges are made that can be
explained or controverted,” he said,
and there Is no effort made by the
defendant to do so. it Is reasonable to
suppose that he 1 guilty of the ac
cusations. ”
The Solicitor maintained that the
State had been practically helpless in
this respect. He said he had been
able only to bring "'trig into the
courtroom to swear to Frank’s gen
eral character and to his general at
titude toward women. He had been
estopped by court ruling from show
ing particular acts of alleged im
morality and improper conduct, he
said.
Why Did Frank
Not Refute Charges.
But, ne maintained, If Frank were
innocent of the acts of Immorality
charged auglnst him, it was most un
likely that he would have let his law
yers be silent when those girls were
on the stand testifying against him.
He would have insisted on his law
yers finding out exactly how much
those witnesses knew and where they
got their Information, the Solicitor
declared.
“Now. gentlemen ’ he argued, “If
you were of good character and twen
ty witnesses were brought here to tes
tify that your character was bad,
would you sit supinely and not make
your attorney* insist upon specific
instances? No; I know you wouldn’t
Yet three able counsel let twenty
girls tell the court that Frank's char
acter was bad and that his character
for lasciviousness, which, uncontrolled
and uncontrollable, led him to kill
Mary Phagan, was bad, and nev r
asked them how they knew.”
Dorsey, in spite of the indignant
dentals made on the stand by Miss
Rebecca Carson, related that she was
one of the women who had gone Into
the dressing room on the fourth floor
with Frank.
“What did they go in there for?"
he asked. “Probably to see If th*)
girls were flirting out of the windows.
The Judge would not allow me to ask
how long they stayed in there. What
the Judge says Is law, although I do
not always understand it. Anywav,
Frank went in with her and came out
with her."
Dorsey gave up much of the early
part of his address to the emphasis
of the value of circumstantial evi
dence and a definition of a “reason
able doubt.” He said that circum
stantial evidence, when It Involved
such a connected train of circum
stances In this case, really was of
more value than direct evidence.
The matter of a reasonable doubt,
he asserted, appeared to have been
hedged with great mystery, although
In reality it was as plain as the nose
on a person’s face.
Rosser’s Closing
Speech Eloquent.
A reasonable doubt, he said, was j
opposed to an unreasonable doubt. It '
wa> baaed on reason and was one for ,
which a reason could be given. It
was such a doubt as to leave the
mind in an uncertain and wavering
condition and to preclude the possi- ]
bility of possessing the moral cer
tainty that the defendant was guilty.
Attorney Rosser, famed as a cross-
examiner and speaker, probably never
made a more eloquent address than he
did Friday In arguing for the life and
freedom of Leo Frank. His words
were full of sarcasm for the police,
the detectives, the Solicitor, Conley
and Dalton—Conley, “the black prince
of liars," and Dalton, “the white
prince of liars.’'
With cutting satire he character
ized the methods of the detectives as
constituting a school in which Conley
was drilled and trained in his ever-
shifting, ever-changing story of his
part in the crime.
He dubbed the Solicitor and De
tectives Starnes. Black. Campbell.
Rosser and Scott as "professors."
Chief Lanford happened to walk In
to the courtroom just at this moment.
“Ah, there’s the dean himself,” re
marked Rosser with a mock bow.
Jim Conley was their pupil, he Said,
only they probably called him
James.” “Stand up, James, and re
cite,” he mimicked.
Conley’s story he branded as a tis
sue of lies—admittedly lies as it ap
peared in his first and second af
fidavits. and party He* as it was con
tained In his third affidavit.
Defends Character
Of the Accused.
He defended the character of Frank
which he said had been blackened
only by the lies of the perjurer Con
ley and his white ally, Dalton.
He declared the conditions at the
National Pencil Factory were no bet
ter and no worse than at any other
factory employing about 100 women
and about as many men. He argued
that the charges of immorality
against Frank were preposterous as
he could not have been on terms of
criminal Intimacy with any number
of his young women employees with
out the factory going to pieces in
ahort order. If the conditions In the
faotory were as they were represent
ed by the prosecution, it would have
been a matter of general knowledge
and the people would have torn down
the faotory. stone by stone, the law
yer contended.
Rosser charged that the whole
rase against Frank was founded on
flimsy suspicions and that there was
not one direct or weighty piece of
evidence from first to last. He ex
hibited the time chart that Attorney
Arnold had used and showed that it
would have been impossible, from th©
viewpoint of the defense, for Farnk
to have committed the crime and to
have done all that Conley related.
[
Girl Reads in The Georgian That
Edward Hogan Is Detained by
Police—They’ll Marry Soon.
The second chapter of the mystery
of Edward Hogan, the New Orleans
man taken Into custody in Atlanta
Friday, after losing ihe address of
his fiancee, has been written. Hogan
and Miss Marie Byrd, of 310 Angier
avenue, have been united.
The romance was consummated by
The Georgian story Friday. Miss
Boyd, who resides at the home of J.
S. Sutherland, saw' the story and
went Immediately to the police sta
tion with Mrs. Sutherland.
There was an affectionate greeting
and then all went to th* 1 Sutherland
home, following Hogan’s release.
Miss Byrd missed a train connection
and failed to meet Hogan.
Miss Bvrd and Mrs. Sutherland told
the police they would take good care
of Hogan until he was completely
well, and. then there will be a wed
ding.
Hogan was taken into custody Fri
day afternoon because of his queer
actions.
BOYISH DORSEY El CASE
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Luther Rosser perhaps never made
a more Impressive speech in all his
long and distinguished career at the
Town Dynamited,
Gun Battle Fought
In Georgia Race War
MOULTRIE, Aug. 23.—Enraged be
cause of an attack made on John
Davis, a young white boy, by a negn
merchant named Bradley, a mob of
about 50 white men, armed with
Winchester rifles and carrying a big*
supply of dynamite, swooped down
on the town of Greenough, in Mitchell
County, dynamited Bradley’s two-
story brick store and set fire to a
two-story frame building occupied as
a negro store and lodgeroom. Both
buildings were destroyed.
The mob then opened fire on negro
residences. The negroes returned the
fire and the clash between the races
continued for more than an hour. Just
how many people were killed or in
jured. i fany, is not yet known.
Greenough is inhabited only by ne
groes. The white mob was from the
countryside.
bar than he made on Friday when
closing the argument for the defense
In the Frank case.
It was not such a speech as might
be termed a finished oration. It was
not characterized by many of the
tricks of eloquence so frequently em
ployed. It was not polished, and It
was not rhetorically magnificent.
It rang "like a bell in the Alps”
with sincerity, however—and in that
it w’as a compelling great speech, and
It surely must have gone home, as
the speaker intended.
It carried a large measure of con
viction, I think, to every man that
heard it—Rosser believes Frank inno
cent, though all the world take Issue
with him!
And does real oratory achieve any
higher end than convincing those to
ward Whom It is directed of the ear
nestness and Integrity of its pur
pose?
It was the last word for Frank—the
final plea before his fate, so far as
the defense was concerned, wa* given
into the keeping of the Jury.
The speaker seemed to realize
heavily, the tremendous weight of re
sponsibility upon him—Just as he
showed all too plainly the wear and
tear inflicted upon his physical make
up by the long trial.
Luther Rosser’s speech may not
clear Frank—maybe it ought not to
clear him—but if so, nothing human.
I think, COULD clear him.
If Frank still was doomed when
Rosier finished, lie surely must have
been doubly doomed when Rosser be
gan!
No Stronger Than Dorsey's.
As appealing as Mr Rosser's ad
dress to the Jury was. however, it
was not one whit more moving or
forceful than was Dorsey's—the clos
ing argument for the State, and the
last speech before the Judge’s charge.
The young Solicitor General knew
he was to follow two of the most
adroit and aggressive speakers in
Georgia.
He knew that it was to be no child’s
play to batter down the wall of de
fense set up by the combined genius
of Reuben Arnold and Luther Ros
ser!
Leaves Aged Wife
He Beat Injured on
Floor, Goes to Work
After attacking his wife. D. H. Kent,
64 years old, No. 84 Lindsay street,
left her lying on the floor with her
right arm broken above the elbow
Saturday morning, and went to his
work at the Jones & Kennedy Furni
ture Company, where he is employed
as a collector. He was arrested there
half an hour later. He was released
on $100 bond and his hearing set for
next Friday before Judge Broyles.
The woman, who is 60 years old.
was sent to the Grady Hospital by
Policeman Anderson, who answered
the call. Besides the broken arm, she
is severely bruised about the body,
where she says her husband struck
her.
Kent refused to talk about the
trouble with his wife, except to say
that the quarrel Involved two sets of
children and was of long duration.
Negroes’ Holdings
Worth $700,000,000
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23.— The
achievements of the negro race dur
ing the 50 years since it was liber
ated from slavery- were emphasized
here by statistics of thg National Ne
gro Business League, which show’ed
that the negroes in the United States
own chattels and real estate valued at
over $700,000,000.
Negro With 20-Year
Term Tries Suicide
DA NIELS VILLE, Aug. 23.—Lind
sey Moon, a negro, confined in the
county pail here, attempted suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor, which
had been slipped to him in some mys
terious way.
The negro was charged with burn
ing a barn at Carrollton some time
last year. He was convicted and giv
en a twenty-year sentence. He was
almost dead from loss of blood when
the Sheriff arrived at the Jail.
from that particularly, it has been, I
think, the defense.
For one thing, the defense went
far beyond the hounds of reason and
common sense, so many people think.
In attacking Dorsey as viciously as it
did.
One can not say how that attack
Impressed the Jury—for the member
ship of that body may or may not
be so well acquainted with Hugh
Dorsey as the general run of Atlanta
people are—but It may well be doubt
ed that It listened with any particu
lar degcee of patience when the
charge of "conspiracy" was hurled
at the head of the Solicitor General so
vehemently!
Those people who have pleaded and
begged for fair play all the way
around—who have insisted that
Frank be given an absolutely impar
tial and unprejudiced trial—have laid
much stress upon his heretofore un
blemished business career. That was
all right, for previous good character
is an asset any man possessing it
has a right to lean upon when as
sailed.
But if Hugh Dorsey, the Solicitor
General, a man of utterly unlm-
peached integrity throughout a life
time in Atlanta, were a willing party
to the maliciously wicked and inhu
man "frame up” charged by the de
fense, he would be as completely
unworthy of the respect and esteem
of this community as any person
could be!
"Frame Up” Charge a Mistake.
When, therefore, the defense asks
the public to believe, and the Jury to
believe, that Dorsey and Hooper—
the latter for years a most honorable
and approved prosecuting attorney in
South Georgia—were deliberately and
designedly parties to a “frame up" of
evidence against Frank's life and lib
erty, is to ask the one to believe
something it most certainly will NOT
believe, and to ask the other some
thing it should not, and likely will
not, believe!
It will be rated no more right to
clear Frank through unsustained and
unfair charges than to convict him
that way, I take it!
Solicitors General in Georgia are
not to be criticised for aggressively
and vigorously prosecuting indicted
criminals—that's what they are there
for—and they are entitled, In good
faith, to seek the truth unmolested
and in their own way and after their
own fashion, unless it can be shown
categorically that they are basely un
worthy—and nothing approximating
He realized, however, that he was that has been sherwn, or likely can be
ated by many as rather a novice in ; shown, of Dorsey and his associates
the art of criminal practice, despite
his tenure of office as the State’s rep
resentative in prosecutions hereto
fore
He had heard Rosser laugh at his
youihfulness and had heard himself
called “son” and “bud’’ too often not
to know that every effort to belittle
him was being made, and that every
means to discount in advance what
he might say was being put forth!
Nevertheless, his sworn duty was
plain. He was chosen some months
ago by the people of the Atlanta Cir
cuit to he their Solicitor General. He
was on his mettle—the critical eyes
of all his friends were upon him. and
the eyes of the people whose repre
sentative he was—and he was spokes
man for the mighty majesty of the
law!
And Dorsey rose to the full de
mands of the occasion!
That much may be said of him, sin
cerely and in all truthfulness.
From start to finish of the Frank
trial Dorsey has been the aggressive,
faithful and tireless agent of the
State—and it is altogether and en
tirely to his credit that he has been
that and all of that!
Both Showed Heavy Strain.
Like Mr Rosser, too, Mr. Dorsey
shows the heavy strain he has been
under for the past four months—for
he has been employed almost exclu
sively on the Frank case that long.
When he had finished he evidently
wa* exhausted utterly in his physi
cal being. He had waged a long and
gallant fight—from his point of view'
—and it had taken tremendous toll
of his energy and nervous system.
Opposing counsel have snapped ano
sneered at one another, hard things
have been bandied back and forth,
much bitterness has been manifest
and much feeling displayed.
Indeed, I should say far more bit
terness has crept into this case than
was in anywise necessary—from both
sides—but if either side has suffered
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in this case.
If the defense finds eventually that
its attack on Dorsey has been resent
ed. it will have nobody to blame but
itself!
The Frank case has been a most
complex and strange proceeding. It
has Involved so many emotions, so
many opinions, so many theories, and
so many peculiar attributes, that it
is ail but impossible to make an in
telligent forecast of the jury’s finding
Opinion in the street is varied, and
generally not aggressively expressed.
It is perhaps true that a plurality
of thus© people who have kept the
run of the trial, believe a mistrial is
the best that may be hoped for.
Th^ case has been so long drawn
out, so badly mixed up. and so hotly
contested, that it seems likely the
jury may hardly know exactly where
the truth does dwell.
It has been an expensive trial to
Fulton County—it has cost well over
$10,000—but that doesn’t matter so
much in the public mind as that a
just and righteous verdict be found.
There are those who look for a
quick verdict of acquittal. Just so*
there are those who look for a quick
verdict of conviction.
Few Expect a Quick Verdict.
And yet there are relatively few
who look for a quick verdict, one way
or the other.
People generally would be glad to
see a verdict one way or the other
returned—and the case disposed of.
To think of going over all the
Frank case again is appalling to most
parties connected with it—and yet a
mistrial would mean that, and noth
ing more or less.
The general opinion Is thatjithis has
been a fair trial—as fair aC human
Intelligence and the most proved
forms of law can make it—-and that
a verdict should result.
While this is generally admitted,
however, it is admitted simultaneous
ly that the jury may have rather a
difficult time getting at the exact
truth, whatever it is, obscured as it
has been by so many issues and argu
ments, both ways, not altogether
relevant or in point.
The story has been told in its
entirety, however—all but the last
and closing chapter.
The jury has the telling of that—
and all the public is asking is that
the jury’s story speak the TRUTH
of the matter, and the public general
ly 1r prepared to accept the jury's
verdict as the truth, I think, what
ever it may be.
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WITH A’LA CARTE SERVICE
TO CINCINNATI & LOUISVILLE